And of course the tag did suddenly work... and then I got this message Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minute between each submission of/comments.pl in order to allow everyone to have a fair chance to post.
... for my email system, I'd love to not be able to get in and send random abuse when I'm drunk IQ_4Beer Why dont my tags work properly in preview? (cue for them to work in submit...)
My old spetrum could stand up to being dropped, especially if you managed to drop it keyboard down, when it would bounce of the moulded rubber keys. It couldn't stand up to the jack from my tape recorder being jammed in its expansion port. This unfortunately seemed to short something leaving it to boot to a black screen, but what the hey, I can still play spectrum games using the Java emultator.
The Hub is linked to routers and the routers are connected in something approximating a hypercube. Given that a hypercube is a four dimensional object how has it been approximated?
The almighty process predicts that there is one bug in the system. This must be keeping the programmers from sleeping wondering where the hell it is...
Then I thought wasn't some of that ROM actually WOM (write once memory), time to get my drivers and devices manual out (or was it exec that had the memory map)...
I was about to say you can boot up to GUI from a floppy, but there is a 192K (I think) ROM helping out but then I thought that 192K is pretty small too
I read about stuff like this in "From Here to Infinity" by Ian Stewart about 8 years ago as a use for Chaos theory. I believe the example in the book talked about recovering voice from a recording contaminated with a noisy air conditioning unit. It said something about considering the voice as the noise, removing it then subtracting what you had left from the original signal...
I've already seen some smart-ass company include a refridgeration unit with an Athlon 800 overclocked to 1GHz, its pricey, makes a racket and takes a while to boot as the processor is taken to 40 degrees below, but hey, its in the shops now
Maybe you'd have to change the way tcp/ip works slightly. When you start a connection with a remote machine you use a new protocol to allocate a frequency and set up your optical route to have the switches set correctly - then for the actual data transmits you have an extremely quick private circuit to the other node. (Which I know is simlilar to the way phone networks work but what the hey)
If the Windows market share slips, fewer people will need Windows applications, Stephenson reasons. "Microsoft could simply recompile its applications to run under other OSes. But this strategy goes against normal corporate instincts," he adds.
Simply recompile... wouldn't it be nice if application porting was that simple.
How long till some poor NT admin keeps a local backup of his 10Gb SQLServer data files and forgets to turn this new feature off. Sorry Mr. user, could you wait a couple of minutes while I just recopy this file you want to change....
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If he calls it a framework why isn't the acronym BXXF (or better still BEEF)?
Unless of course you are working on software for spaceships: Story here
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Those Railroad Tycoon guys will have the little lightbulbs flashing
My old spetrum could stand up to being dropped, especially if you managed to drop it keyboard down, when it would bounce of the moulded rubber keys. It couldn't stand up to the jack from my tape recorder being jammed in its expansion port. This unfortunately seemed to short something leaving it to boot to a black screen, but what the hey, I can still play spectrum games using the Java emultator.
The Hub is linked to routers and the routers are connected in something approximating a hypercube.
Given that a hypercube is a four dimensional object how has it been approximated?
The almighty process predicts that there is one bug in the system. This must be keeping the programmers from sleeping wondering where the hell it is...
So what you want is a mainframe that can play quake...
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Can you atone for Married with Children?
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Simply recompile... wouldn't it be nice if application porting was that simple.
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How long till some poor NT admin keeps a local backup of his 10Gb SQLServer data files and forgets to turn this new feature off. Sorry Mr. user, could you wait a couple of minutes while I just recopy this file you want to change....
Hell, why don't we make everyone program in Assembler. Then we could all understand each others programs... Variety is the spice of life.